Month: January 2005

NEW YORK The Iraqi election scheduled for Sunday, only recently viewed as a culmination, is now being described as the inauguration of a civil war. The timing and the voting arrangements have become controversial. All this is a way of foreshadowing a demand for an exit strategy, by which many critics mean some sort of […]

Helicopters are taking off and landing now in the tsunami-shattered villages and towns. The sick are being taken for treatment. Clean water is being delivered. Food is arriving. Soon the work of reconstruction will begin….more